For those that are interested in the VMware product line and the VMworld conference, it is time to begin the community voting for sessions that will be given at VM World 2012 in both San Francisco, CA USA and Barcelona, Spain.
You’ll need to register in order to vote, so create an account and get signed in and vote for the sessions that you would like to see. Now don’t worry, you don’t need to register for the conference to vote (it looks like you do on the site), you only have to create an account on the website in order to get your votes in.
There are a lot of really good looking sessions up on the list, including three of mine, so hopefully I can count on your votes for my sessions. The three sessions that I have up for vote are:
1331 Optimizing SQL Server Performance in a Virtual Environment
In this session we’ll look over some of the things which you should be looking at within your virtual environment to ensure that you are getting the performance out of it that you should be. This will include how to look for CPU performance issues at the host level. We will also be discussing the Memory Balloon drivers and what they actually do, and how you should be configuring them, and why. We’ll discuss some of the memory sharing technologies which are built into vSphere and Hyper-V and how they relate to SQL Server. Then we will finish up with some storage configuration options to look at.
1332 SQL Server for the VMware Admin
One of the biggest issues in database performance is the storage, and one of the largest consumers of storage is databases. Because of an unfortunate disconnect that often occurs between database administrators and storage engineers troubleshooting performance problems tricky at best. In this session we’ll work to demystify the database so it can run at the best possible speed.
During this session we’ll look at how databases work from the database side, how the DBA should be laying out the database on the storage, what questions the DBA should be asking the storage admin, and most importantly what questions the storage admin should be asking your DBA when allocating storage for a new database server.
1717 SQL Server 2012 High Availability Without Shared Storage
In this session we will look at the features which are provided with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 as part of the “Always On” features including site to site configurations to allow of a large scale high availability solution without the need for any high end SAN storage solution.
Additionally we will be looking at the ability to have redundant servers which can be used for reporting or for taking your backups reducing the load from the production database. We will also look a unique use case using SQL Server 2012’s Always On feature to scale out the reads to synchronous read only copies.
I hope that I can count on your votes so that my sessions get picked for vmworld 2012.
Denny
